RE: date function bug

From: Ravi Krishna <sr_krishna(at)aol(dot)com>

> postgres=# select to_date('2018150X','YYYYMMDD');
> to_date
------------
> 2019-03-03

> postgres=# select to_date('20181501','YYYYMMDD');
> to_date
> ------------
> 2019-03-03

is this a cut-n-paste mistake?

====================
Surprisingly (to me), no….
db=# select to_date('20181501','YYYYMMDD');
to_date
------------
2019-03-03
(1 row)

Time: 0.497 ms
nms=# select version();
version
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PostgreSQL 9.6.5 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (GCC) 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-16), 64-bit
(1 row)

Time: 0.247 ms
db=#

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